Note XXVII-82 — Chapter XXVII · CENTRAL AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 1886.
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In 1840 small-pox prevailed in Chagres among the natives; foreigners, being mostly vaccinated, escaped unscathed. It visited the Isthmus again as an epidemic in 1863, 1880, and 1881, with great ravages each time, owing to neglect of the common rules of hygiene, or aversion of the lower classes to vaccination. Niles' Reg., lix. 17; Bidwell's Isth. Pan., 222-3; Cash's Sketch, 62-3; Pan., Gaceta, March 14, Aug. 1, Oct. 17, 1880; Sept. 22, 1881; El Coclesano, Aug. 5, 20, 1881; S. F. Bulletin, July 16, 1881.